Overview

• High Court judge K. Muniandy granted Najib Razak a discharge not amounting to acquittal in the SRC International money laundering case
• The ruling followed a determination that prosecutors failed to produce key documents within required timeframes
• A discharge not amounting to acquittal does not clear Najib of charges and permits the Attorney General’s Chambers to refile them later
• Najib is serving a 12-year prison term from his 2020 conviction in the first of several 1MDB-related cases
• He still awaits closing arguments in his largest 1MDB trial set for October and is appealing to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest